Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading aggressively into the stormy problem of protection for political minorities (viz. German communities in Poland), Germany's solid, monkish Stresemann had announced that he was not satisfied with the Council's treatment of minority questions, would appeal to the World Court and the League Assembly for a "positive, crusading attitude rather than a negative, legalistic one on behalf of oppressed peoples...
...spoke M. Briand: "The German delegate is shaking the foundations of the League for domestic political advantage," he rasped. "He is abusing the confidence of the public and giving the League a black eye before the world for inferring that it has not been doing its fullest duty toward minorities...
...Canberra last week the Commonwealth Government passed a law definitely prohibiting the importation of Alsatian Shepherd dogs ("German police dogs") into Australia. Bluntly, the legislature recommended extermination of the breed in Australia...
...lava cloud could be seen from Munich but not from Berlin, which is the usual scene of up-to-the-minute German novelties. "Never mind," wrote a Berlin wag. "We have a nice big cloud of our own this week ? all the way from Egypt...
...reference was to His Majesty King Ahmed Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...